Take baby steps, and eventually, you’ll be able to erase those boundaries.

2. Take a break from social media and devices

Admit it.

Even amidst all that “I don’t have time talk” you always spend time on your phone.

The thing about these devices is that once you sit staring at a screen, scrolling through miles and miles of information of which only one percent is probably actually useful for you, we don’t realize how quickly time passes.

You sit down, phone in hand, and when you get up again, it feels like just ten minutes, but actually, it’s been an hour!

There are so many productive things you could do in all that time.

Always place a limit on the time you spend on such activities.

3. Mark your tasks into categories

There are two ways you can categorize all the work you have to do: by their urgency or productivity and by whether you like them or not.

Based on these criteria, you can make three categories to sort everything you have to do.

The first group would include all those things that need to be done urgently or all those highly productive tasks that you actually want to do.

This would be an urgent report that you have to complete by tomorrow or a new work project for which you have to plan.

Anything that would make you more productive at work, bring in more sales, all can be included in this group.

The second group includes tasks that you may not be very interested in doing but you have to do anyway.

This group varies from administrative work around your office to daily chores around your house.

The third group includes those things that you love doing, but are not urgent at all.

This is where you put in all your hobbies and interests, your social media time and so on.

4. Practice immense discipline

No one can control you other than yourself.

All these plans that you make, all the schedules you prepare are useless if you don’t actually work according to them.

For that, you need to discipline yourself.

When it’s your bedtime, fight that feeling to go through your phone again, because you know you’ll stay up for another hour.

Practicing discipline doesn’t mean only being hard on yourself.

You can also reward yourself with some time off in between.

5. Group your tasks when you work on them

When you set on completing a set of tasks for a day group them into batches based on their similarity.

This will help you to concentrate continuously.

If you schedule dissimilar tasks together, it will split your attention and it will take you extra time to get back on track.

So do all the similar activities together.

6. Learn to say No

You might want to be really helpful, but sometimes you’ve got to say no.

If someone asks you for a not-so-important favor that messes up your entire schedule, you’ll have to say no to them.

If you can move around a few things to make time for it, that’s good.

But if not, try to turn them down politely, and make them understand.

7. The right composition

We talked about categorizing our tasks into three groups.

The best possible combination of these tasks would help make a productive and stress-free day.

It would be to give more importance to the first group tasks, while also enough making time for second group tasks.

Although the tasks in the third group are not as important, they are necessary to stress busters, so you have to make time for them, but don’t devote a lot of your time there.

So a typical day would have fifty percent of group one, thirty percent of group two and twenty percent of group three.

This is just a vague estimate and it will change based on the nature of your tasks.

8. Early to rise

If you wake up earlier, you actually increase the length of the day.

Waking up early can add on a lot of time into your days.

Try to get into the habit of rising early. This is not a change you can bring about very easily.

Make small changes in your sleeping habits first, and then, gradually, you can become an early riser.

9. Everyone has the best time

Everyone has a part of the day when they are most productive.

It may be in the morning when they are fresh and pumped with energy.

Some people find it best to work at night when it’s quiet and peaceful.

For some, it may even be in the afternoon.

Find out what time works best for you, and during what part of the day you are most productive.

Allocate your work according to this.

Your best time is when you would want to do most of your group one and group two tasks.

10. It’s okay to go off-schedule

Not voluntarily.

But if by some twist of fate you happen to go off the schedule, it doesn’t mean your whole week is ruined.

You just need to make space by moving around a few things, say by cutting down the time on your group three activities.

Don’t take it as an excuse to stray away from the plan

Know that you are the master of your time, and nobody else is controlling it.

If you can manage your time well, you are sure to be successful.

But don’t think that all of this will happen overnight.

It will take you some time to get used to it and fit into the schedules and plans.

When you work hard, don’t forget to reward yourself for the work you have done.

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